India, Nov. 30 -- Teenage girls might be at risk of contracting endometriosis at much younger ages than previously thought. MD OB/GYN, Dr Thais Aliabadi, told Dr Andrew Huberman on his podcast that girls as young as 14 are struggling with this disorder.

"I have, right now, in my practice, a girl at 14 with endometriosis whose egg count is the egg count of a 40-year-old," Dr Aliabadi explained in the clip of the interview shared on Instagram. "I can't sit here and generalize that if you are in your 20s, you are going to be fine. It's not true!"

She then went on to emphasise the need for testing to diagnose this disease at the earliest. "Every girl on this planet needs to be screened for endometriosis, for PCOS, and they need to know thei...